Josh Lehman

LTC Joshua O. Lehman, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Law & Philosophy

joshua.lehman [at] westpoint.edu

Joshua Lehman is an assistant professor in the Department of Law & Philosophy at the United States Military Academy (USMA) at ˮAV˵. He served a career in U.S. Army Special Forces before completing graduate studies at Boston College and joining ˮAV˵'s philosophy faculty in 2021.

His research brings classical ethics and the philosophy of war into dialogue. Drawing on the Thomistic tradition and the Catholic phenomenological movement — principally Augustine, Aquinas, Dietrich von Hildebrand, and Karol Wojtyła — he addresses questions of war, peace, and the moral and existential experience of the soldier. His current book project develops a Thomistic personalist account of soldiers and war, supplementing classical just war theory with a phenomenological examination of the soldier's interior moral life.

Ph.D., Philosophy - Boston College

M.A., Philosophy - Boston College

M.A., Theology - Holy Apostles College & Seminary

M.A., Defense and Strategic Studies - U.S. Naval War College

B.S., Art, Philosophy, and Literature - U.S. Military Academy